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[ghoulsjournal]

Things I’ve Learned

- don’t drink water in the dark

- don’t look out windows at night

- if you feel it watching don’t look for it just hurry on your way, but to be safe if you feel running for some reason would insult This One then don’t

- take only dead wood from forests, fallen berries and flowers are safe too, the living things are Not For You

- NEVER stomp on the mushrooms

- stay on the animal paths

- leave an offering in the woods to be left in peace during your walks

- the hills and fields may seem open and empty but They Never Are

- listening to the wind is fine but you should never reply to it, if you feel it shift it’s time to go

- if your dog won’t go near it neither should you

- if It’s in your room then shut your eyes or otherwise don’t acknowledge It, It will eventually lose interest

- ghosts can and will lie to you

- don’t give anything your full name

- if you feel weak, don’t rest - leave

- your shadow doesn’t always belong to you

- check your seats before entering your vehicle, do not look back for ANYTHING after

- better yet keep things in your seats

- generally if you suddenly feel you shouldn’t look in a certain direction, be in a certain place, or do a certain thing then please trust your gut

[shankss-magnificent-ass]

-night time isn’t for humans, stay at home. Go hunting around Dawn and twilight.

- don’t whistle at night

-if something throws a rock at you, Do Not throw one back

-if you actually see anything, pretend you didn’t because It will not leave you alone afterwards.

- pay attention to your feelings, because sometimes what you are feeling aren’t your feelings. Learn to decipher your emotions from theirs.

-do not, for the love of god and all that is holy, insult them. That’s a great way to get cursed.

-some times the aches and pains you feel can be caused by a spirit, usually parasitic ones.

-not all spirits are bad

-never trust the dead, they have nothing to lose, and only mild entertainment watching you fail to gain.

-avoid feeling afraid, it’s what some of them want. If you start feeling afraid calm your mind and pretend they don’t exist and then promptly GTFO.

[cripplywobblytimeywimey]

Seasonal Herbs/Ingredients/Flowers For The Pagan Sabbats

Imbolc:

Lemon, Thyme, Rosemary, Dill, Fennel, Liquorice, Snowdrop, Dandelion, Mint.

Ostara:

Primrose, Rosemary, Daisy, Orange Peel, Basil, Garlic, Lavender, Mint.

Beltane:

Yellow/Orange Roses, Buttercup, Onion Salt, Bay Leaf, Oregano, Black Pepper.

Litha:

Pink /White Roses, Red Clover, Chili Powder, Chamomile, Cumin.

Lughnasadh:

Sunflower, Anise Seed, Cloves, Ginger, Mustard Seed, Turmeric, Blackberries, Sage.

Mabon:

Lavender, Maple Leaves, Pine Cones, Chamomile, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, Paprika, Sage.

Samhain:

Pine Needles, Blackberry Leaves, Fennel, Allspice, Red Roses, Jasmine, Nutmeg, Cloves.

Yule:

Mistletoe, Snowdrop, Lemongrass, Chive, Cinnamon, Sage, Rosemary, Ginger, Garlic, Orange Peel, Dill, Basil, Black Pepper, Bay Leaf.

[lofijazz]

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[riverlandfarm]

15 reasons to build an herb spiral for your garden (By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

(By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

Whether you’re a city mouse or a country mouse — with a high-rise patio or 1000 acres — building an herb spiral near your kitchen allows you to partake in the sustainable permaculture revolution and have fresh organic culinary herbs at your fingertips. An herb spiral is a compact vertical garden built on specific principles allowing for individualized management of wind and water flow to create the ideal garden in a limited amount of space.

The spiral is a natural form that provides an efficient method for managing space, storing and sorting. Using the natural universal design of a spiral, the forces of gravity and water flow are utilized to their fullest allowing for proper drainage downhill. Herbs that thrive on drier soils live at the top, whereas those needing more moisture reside at the bottom where water collects. This form allows for planting of a widely diverse number of plants, and creates natural, sunny and shady areas — a perfect miniature microclimate landscape environment. The herb spiral as a permaculture form that allows you to create your own ecosystem and become self sufficient. The format can be adapted to large gardens if space is available.

Stone or block building materials allow for retention of heat and insulate plants in colder weather or at night, while acting as the backbone for the structure. Collect water at the bottom and have a small fish or frog pond or even a bog and grow edible water plants. An herb spiral can be built even on a concrete foundation and filled with the richest biodynamic, organic earth to support any plants included.

The spiral should always be built to move in the direction of water drainage in whatever hemisphere it’s located in — for example, in the Northern hemisphere, water runs off in a clockwise direction and the opposite is true for the Southern hemisphere. This allows for optimal positioning of the pond at the bottom and reduces evaporation. The spiral can be built as a round or oval shape to take advantage of the movement of summer sunlight.

15 REASONS TO BUILD AN HERB SPIRAL FOR YOUR PERMACULTURE GARDEN

1. Maximize growing space to grow more food. 2. Multiple microclimates available for optimal plant growth.

3. Healthier plants where growing needs are met and companion planting is easy to reduce insect problems and foster beneficial plant relationships for better growth. 4. Aesthetic garden focal point.

5. Maximizes space even in very small areas on top of concrete or in high-rise buildings. 6. Harvesting access is easy and all plants are effortlessly accessible. 7. No bending, everything is at waist height — hooray!

8. Save money by growing your own food. 9. Eat organic, using heirloom seeds and avoid pesticides and genetically engineered seeds. 10. Reduces maintenance, little weeding and easy to turn and mulch.

11. Manage water amounts and use natural forces to perpetuate the growing season. 12. Reduce building costs when you use local available materials. 13. Use drip irrigation or a small sprinkler for easy watering and irrigation.

14. Create a bio-diverse habitat for creatures who come to visit. 15. Build an herb spiral to grow medicinal herbs to avoid Big Pharm drugs.

Sources for this article: http://www.mitra.biz http://themicrogardener.com http://welcometovoluntarysimplicity.wordpress.com http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/creating-an-herb-spiral/

[vaspider]

@apocalycious

[legaltaboo]

Happy May Day (or Beltane) ! I’ve spent the day chilling with my squishy kitty :)

[vvitchella]

Gonna write a witchcraft book titled “Another Book on Witchcraft: Everybody’s Doing It and I Want to Feel Included”

[vvitchella]

The dedication reads: “To all those people who felt like basic stuff needs to be repeated in different ways a thousand million times. I hope I make half as much cash off this as you have. Where would we all be without seventeen separate “Wicca for Beginners” books on our shelves? Living? Fuck that.“

[vvitchella]

Chapters:

Chapter 1: This Chapter has No Real Value Unless You Want to Know My Life Story, which, Let’s Be Real, You Don’t

Chapter 2: For Some Reason I Feel the Need to Justify this To Someone Who’s Already Literally Bought In

Chapter 3: Oh, Did You Want Actual Material? Here it is… Psyche! ANOTHER Introduction with a Far Too Personal Anecdote

Chapter 4: Vague Gesticulations as to Why I Think Magic Is Real feat. Shitty Metaphysics that Would Make Even Descartes Roll in His Grave

Chapter 5: Candle Magic, Because It’s Basic As Shit and the Only Magic I’m Actually Good At

Chapter 6: Did Someone Say, “Sixth Grade Understanding of Classical Mythological Figures?”

Chapter 7: The Turning of the Wheel: Time’s a Bitch and Took My Youth, Here’s Another Personal Anecdote About It

Chapter 8: We’re the Victims Here: My Pisspoor Understanding of the History of Witchcraft that I Take As Fact

Chapter 9: It’s Not Cultural Appropriation!!!!! Okay??!!??!

Chapter 10: Incomplete Charts. We Got… Colors… We Got… Moons… Here’s Some… Gendered Days of the Week…

Chapter 11: How to Craft Spells with No Skills In Poetry at a Mere $500 a Pop! You’re Welcome! Buy My T-shirt!

Chapter 12: Advanced Magikck: Fuck Some Ghosts or Some Shit

Chapter 13: Fuck I Forgot the Tarot and How to Swing a Pendulum

Chapter 14: Rituals and Circle-Casting: In Which I Deny Satan’s Existence but Put the Fear of Him in You Anyway

Chapter 15: A Personal Anecdote to Illustrate That I Am a Far More Skilled Witch Than You

[kristina100000]

video game companies really think hyperreality somehow makes games better… it does not! it just makes them hyper realistic lol and it sure doesn’t make my console feel any better either… instead of putting hours of effort into making a character’s arm hair look realistic how about u put some effort into something that matters like idk the plot maybe

[feywild-songbird-deactivated202]

no offense but some of you people who identify as empaths need to stay in your lane

you cannot understand someone elses trauma on an emotional level unless you have lived through it or similar experiences. you cannot understand the pain of someone elses mental illness unless you have it yourself and even at that everyone experiences mental illness differently.

some of you really be out here acting like just because you’re an empath means that people have to keep everything bothering them to themselves because “youll feel it too and its just too much to handle” no. stop doing that. nobodys expectig you to be their therapist but i’ve literally had “empaths” tell me i couldn’t even so much as mention that i was having a depressive episode because it “affected them too much”.

there comes a point where you have to separate your problems and suck it up because it affects the people who are actually dealing with painful things. and yes, we all deal with stuff in our life, but seriously. cut it out.

[glumshoe]

The Fair Folk: “I can’t believe this. Twenty years I’ve cleaned your house and you DARE to try to REPAY me with GIFTS. This is such an insult. Fuck you, you insolent humans. I’m leaving here and never returning because you have insulted me so deeply.”

Also the Fair Folk: “Remember that one time you pulled a thorn out of a cat’s foot? That was me. To show my gratitude, here is a house made of solid gold, a life-debt, my daughter’s hand in marriage, and a promise that all your children will be gorgeous and successful at all that they do. I can also throw in a blow job if you want. I hope this is enough. I don’t want to seem ungrateful.”

[pallidprincess]

ship are you making a callout post for faeries

[elvensemi]

#now to be fair #i have always interpreted this dichotomy as#you can leave them gifts #but not as repayment#because otherwise you’re just paying them to clean your house#and so the insult is to imply that they are servants performing labor for compensation#when in reality they are Magnanimous Bros#totally just cleaning your nasty house out of the goodness of their good good hearts#and if you want to also be a bro #and give them some uncurdled milk and honey#that’s cool because that’s what bros do#but if you’re like ‘here’s some food for cleaning my house’ it’s like #EXCUSE ME#ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT YOU’RE ONLY GIVING ME THIS BECAUSE I DID SOMETHING FOR YOU#WHAT KIND OF FRIEND ARE YOU#FUCK OFF WITH THAT THEN I THOUGHT WE WERE BROS

[theworldsactuallynotthatsmall-d]

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[fleeting-ghosts-art]

Aine: irish, from proto-celtic “aidna”, means radiant. Aine is the fairy queen in irish mythology.

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[samezukas-deactivated20171227]

so i don’t think a lot of people really understand how often south asian culture is misinterpreted and appropriated so i’m making a post about it right here.

any mention of third eyes

any mention of chakras

people wearing bindis when they shouldn’t be 

fucking “om” or “aum” tattoos or appliques on things like yoga pants. do you know how fucking disrespectful it is to put a symbol that is so important to my religion and culture on the ass of some white chick’s yoga pants

people wearing maang tikka when they shouldn’t be

anklets with bells on them are very important to the dance culture of south asia and it’s disrespectful to wear them outside of a traditional dance setting

feel free to add any more that i missed because i’m fucking tired

[samezukas-deactivated20171227]

this is okay to rb if you’re not south asian. in fact it’s encouraged that you reblog this post, regardless of your race

[fierce-little-afro-witch]

^^Anyone is capable of appropriation without meaning to, even other poc. Please respect!

[afrocentric-divination]

All of you asking if it’s still ok if youre pagan can also go choke. Y’all will use any excuse to appropriate and not care what other people say not to use. They are literally saying “DONT” and y’all are saying “yeah but…” But my ass. Learn to stop being so entitled.

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[will-o-the-witch]

Fighting Consumerism in Magic

aka, little things to distance your craft from capitalism

Let’s all just admit that buying stuff is fun. That said, there’s a big issue of consumerism within the witchy/pagan scene. As magic work and the pagan “aesthetic” becomes more of a commodity in the mainstream, there’s a mounting attitude of needing All The Items in the highest quality (even if we’re not certain we’ll use them,) and big corporations mass-producing cheap stuff to make a buck off of a growing trend. Here’s some things you can do to help detach your practice from that and support other people in the craft:

Go outside. Check your backyard or local park for local plant life, waters, roots, etc. If your work involves things from nature at all, you can probably find a lot of your supplies… in nature. It takes a little more time, but it’s free and then you’ve gathered stuff yourself! 

Make stuff. This one is pretty straightforward. There may be key items to your practice that you can make yourself instead of buying it! That said, I know sometimes spending money is inevitable so I won’t dwell too much on this… let’s talk more about shopping:

Shop mindfully. The price of a lot of items will skyrocket once it has a pentacle or other symbol engraved on it. For example, little mortars and pestles can be very pricey in witchy shops, but you could probably get a bigger one that’s actually food safe for less at a nice grocery store. Antique stores and international markets are now your new best friends.

Support small businesses! Things are cheaper on Amazon, but the extra money goes to support real people, likely other practitioners. If you can, supporting small, local, independent shopkeepers and crafters does a ton of good. It also helps build and sustain a local community. 

Shop based on need. Don’t get something “just in case” (unless it’s banishing or hex breaking stuff; those are decent to have on hand.) It’s tempting to impulse-buy a ton of niche items and ingredients, but unless you have a reasonable idea what you’re going to use them for in the near future, it’ll probably just create clutter for you to deal with later.

Prioritize effectiveness over aesthetic. Ultimately your practice has to work for you, not just look good. I think making your work aesthetically pleasing to yourself can be an important part of really connecting with what you’re doing, but don’t make that desire burn a hole in your wallet and distract you from what brought you to this path in the first place. Altar envy is a real thing. 

Recycle/Upcycle. Use old clothing fabric for an altar cloth. That old trinket dish makes a great offering dish. Enchant jewelry you already own. That jar of strawberry jelly you just finished off will work just fine for that spell. Things can be re-purposed and made into new things.

Analyze your offerings. Special occasion wine isn’t a special occasion if you do it every time. Not every offering needs to be a grand gesture, regular maintenance is more important generally.

Organize trades. Have any pals that also practice? See if you can help each other! You could trade different goods (that old mini cauldron you bought and never used for that abandoned tarot deck, maybe?) but also services. A protection spell for a luck charm. A reading for a reading. You help them with the laundry and they cook you a meal one day. 

As always, the goal is to foster a local community of individuals doing honest work, and shedding the consumerist mindset society taught us to make us spend more money. Take up the idea that you can do magic completely on your own with what you already around you, and if you do want to spend money, see if you can do it in a way that helps the world a tiny bit.  :) 

[fuckyeahpaganism]

Fae Offerings

These are from my personal experiences. 

Crystals ~ fluorite, rose quartz, amethyst, selenite, moonstone, tourmaline

Sugary things, you can color sugar with food coloring.

Bread & butter

Honey

Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries

Berries picked in your area

Pine cones

Sea shells 

Acorns

Cream

Jelly Beans

Pie: pumpkin pie, berry pies

Blueberry muffins

feathers (I’ve only used ones I’ve found and chicken feathers from my pet chickens)

Water ~ sometimes I add a little bit of sugar to it or honey, sometimes I add a few crystals

Sunflower seeds

Bird seeds & grains

You can color rice with food coloring

Fruity drinks and teas

Sangria 

Fairy wine recipe

Fairy sugar recipe

Things I stay away from: 

Fairies don’t like iron. 

Try not to leave things that will litter nature unless you have a designated offering area or altar for the fae that you clean/keep tidy regularly. 

No incense. They don’t seem to like smoke. 

If you stop working with them, making them offerings, or “forget” out them - they will remember. They don’t like that. 

So this is my personal list, probably left some things out. All elemental beings are different in other areas. Some things that might work for me will not work for you. The ones where I live absolutely HATE glitter, but I know in some places they don’t mind. In all, they are curious and shy little creatures that usually aren’t too fond of humans, but you can get on their good side with a little bit of time and commitment. Remember, though, that not all fairies are nice and some may be mischievous. 

[despazito]

vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs….why

[despazito]

people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens

[genterie]

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[boy-witched]

CRYSTAL WITCH PSA

Stop leaving your crystals in the sun! Please ! Like 80% of the crystals y’all put in ur window are gonna fade ! They were in caves or buried for thousands of years and that’s why their color is so brilliant! Please don’t leave your crystals in the sun! Especially brightly colored ones! If you need a way to cleanse your beautiful bright crystals the moon is always there for you !